Word: radioed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Siepmann has been connected with the British Broadcasting Corporation for twelve years, of which the first eight were spent in the Adult Education Department, and the past four in executive offices, Invited by President Conant to perform research on the role of radio in education, and financed by a private American organization not connected with Harvard or with the British Government, he "nearly fell over backwards" in eagerness to accept the offer...
...Harvard, he will offer to assist the University Committee on Broadcasting and the Radio Workshop, he says. "I am keen to meet the Workshop boys. I think it very significant that they are seeing radio as an effective educational technique, and that they are building their programs around a thing of such contemporary importance as American history...
Thus an integrated public opinion can be approximated, and an attitude of intellectual curiosity encouraged: For this reason radio is a "tremendous, powerful, and exciting: new instrument whose possibilities have only begun to the explored, Siepmann declares...
...There is no such thing as real impartiality, and those who ask it of radio do not know what the word means," he says. "To appear impartial is to say nothing about anything that really matters, or else to present 'both sides' of a question as if a question had two sides instead of sixty...
...What is really important is who is dictating the ideas and values expressed over the air waves, and whether or not we approve of them. In Europe the uses of broadcasting are subordinated to the propagation of nationalistic or ideological ideas to the extent that radio is doing no constructive work but rather denying the free development of the mind...